Communications of the ACM
An epidemic model for information diffusion in MANETs
MSWiM '02 Proceedings of the 5th ACM international workshop on Modeling analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
A charging and rewarding scheme for packet forwarding in multi-hop cellular networks
Proceedings of the 4th ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking & computing
Alternate distribution strategies for digital music
Communications of the ACM - Why CS students need math
Stimulating cooperation in self-organizing mobile ad hoc networks
Mobile Networks and Applications
Digital rights management in a 3G mobile phone and beyond
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM workshop on Digital rights management
SLIC: A Selfish Link-Based Incentive Mechanism for Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Networks
ICDCS '04 Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'04)
Exchange-Based Incentive Mechanisms for Peer-to-Peer File Sharing
ICDCS '04 Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'04)
Robust incentive techniques for peer-to-peer networks
EC '04 Proceedings of the 5th ACM conference on Electronic commerce
Plug-and-play application platform: towards mobile peer-to-peer
Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Mobile and ubiquitous multimedia
Free Riding on Gnutella Revisited: The Bell Tolls?
IEEE Distributed Systems Online
Three applications for mobile epidemic algorithms
Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Human computer interaction with mobile devices & services
Impact of incentive mechanisms on quality of experience
Proceedings of the 13th annual ACM international conference on Multimedia
Incentives for content availability in memory-less peer-to-peer file sharing systems
ACM SIGecom Exchanges
Music sharing as a computer supported collaborative application
ECSCW'01 Proceedings of the seventh conference on European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Reliable MIX cascade networks through reputation
FC'02 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Financial cryptography
Mobile music distribution: a multichannel approach
Advances in Multimedia
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Record labels and telecoms are using the pervasiveness of mobile technologies to create a mobile music market, where customers can have their preferred music at any time and in any place. The idea is to replicate the successful strategy of the Internet-based music market into the mobile scenario. In this paper we first analyze the current mobile music market and we show that this strategy leads to several problems (e.g., excessive download time, cost and protection). As a second contribution, we propose and analyze a multi-channel distribution strategy, where customers can cooperate to music distribution. The approach is based on the cellphone network, the free-of-charge communication technologies provided by cellphones, and on an incentive mechanism that financially compensates users for their cooperation in music distribution. The approach evaluation shows that the employment of an effective incentive mechanism can mitigate the problems of the current mobile music scenario, as it provides benefits to customers, cellphone network providers and music stores.